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Bryan N. Smith

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Bryan N. Smith is a creative thinker who is passionate about exploring the world of faith and the life of the mind. He is the author of Faith Seeking Belief and a former Chapter Director for both the New Canaan Society as well as Reasonable Faith. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, an M.A. in Philosophy from Houston Christian University, and briefly pursued a Ph.D. in Humanities from Faulkner University before leaving to pursue further study through the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University. He and his family reside near Dallas, TX.

Honoring the History Behind the Words

I knew for a long time that the Bible came from another world. I knew it was ancient and that the people behind it lived thousands of years ago, spoke languages I don’t, and saw the world very differently than I do. None of that was a secret. It’s just that most of it tended to disappear whenever I actually sat down to read it. I’d been taught to come to Scripture expecting God to speak, so natura

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“Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.”
Bryan N. Smith, Faith Seeking Belief: A Philosophical Case for the Viability of Christian Agnosticism

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Although Anselm once famously (and I think truthfully) described the Christian faith as a “faith seeking understanding,” it seems to me that it can also be plausibly described, at least for some persons, as a “faith seeking belief.”
Bryan N. Smith, Faith Seeking Belief: A Philosophical Case for the Viability of Christian Agnosticism

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